I love Neil Marshall, i really do, well not in that way. Having made Dog Soldiers and The Descent, he's shown himself to be able to take all the best stuff from B-grade monster suspense movies and infuse them with characters you might actually give a damn about.
Dog Soldiers is about a group of British Army guys who are sent out on a mission into the deep woods. Only it turns out that they are bait for a family of werewolves. Cut off and alone in a rural farmhouse they have to fight to survive,
The Descent is about a group of spelunking girlfirends who find themselves trapped in an extensive and uncharted cave system in North Carolina. Cut off from the world they must fight to survive against a family of pre-human cave creatures.
Doomsday is about a plague that sweeps the UK. The survivors are secluded in a walled in Scotland to await their death. 25 years later the plague is back and some of those in the Scottish quarantine zone are still alive, apparently immune. In an effort to find the cure, a team of British special forces moves into the Quarantine zone. Cutoff and alone they must fight to survive against a band of Mad Max-a-likes.
I know, Marshall keeps making the same movie over and over, but I prefer to think of it as refinement. After all, Rohmer made the same movie forever, as does Scorsese, and any real autuer. I can't tell from the trailer how Marshall this new one is going to be, as it looks like a Bloodrayne sequel or something on that level. However, all of his films have been hard to categorize based solely on the trailer. I love Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, at least before the lost boys show up. So if this film blends that astehetic with Marshall's trademark, band of survivors against impossible odds, Doomsday could be a schloky fest for the ages.
Trailer here.